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Volume 19 -- Issue 11
Planet Watch -- November 2013

Mercury begins the month in inferior conjunction but by the 18th will have reached its greatest western elongation and will be rising about an hour before the Sun rises.
Venus is visible in the evening skies at sunset but due the angle of the ecliptic Venus continues to stay somewhat low over the western horizon for northern hemisphere observers this month. Follow Venus this month as it crosses the 'steam' (Milky Way) coming from the teapot-shaped Sagittarius.

Mars is becoming increasingly higher above the northeastern horizon at sunrise and consequently is becoming more visible. Watch Mars continue its eastward motion below the stars of the constellation Leo the Lion. By the end of the month Mars will have passed the tail of the lion, Denebola.
Jupiter rises before midnight local time and is high above the southeastern horizon at sunrise forming a sort of lop-sided right-triangle with the 'Twin' Stars Pollux and Castor.
Saturn moves from solar conjunction to becoming more visible over the southeastern horizon before sunrise. Watch on the morning of the 26th when Marcury and Saturn are less than 1 degree from each other.